Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-16
REAL ESTATE.
REAL ESTATE.
COMBINATION
Land Company.
Special n o. 2.

A real estate agent came mp from the west
Came up from the west as the sun went
| down
| To sell a few lots he was doing his best;
And his best was as good as any IN town.
| For agents must work or sellers VIII weep
And commissions are low, and it costs TO
| A real estate Office running
/ A real estate buyer, wary and wise,
| Went with the agent to the seaside;
| He trusted no words, but trusted his eyes;
This buyer of land who was slow to decide
| For buyers must look and ponder and keep
| Their eyes wide open, though land be cheap
| In this country of booms and booming.
He saw Leneada in all its glory
OF vineyards and orchards aud sea-beach
| grand,
| And he said if is true! Not half of the story
Has been told concerning this fairy land!
| And he bought block-bought 1t at once,
| For he said to buy not was the act OF "A Ounce
When the land is so cheap and charming.
South of the San Marcos river, on
the line of the California Southern
railroad, an hours ride from San Di-
ego and less than four hours ride
from Los Angeles by the A. 7. & S. F.
line now building, LEUcADIA lies in
the lap of Paradise. She is the fair
est OF all the fair daughters of the sea.
She is the Venus Amphridite of
Southern California. The beach at
Leu cadia is as hard as asphalt and as
level as a ballroom floor, and the surf
is so light it would net upset baby.
Generally seaside soil is not prolific
agriculturally speaking-but the lana
| at Leucadia is exceptionally fertile
and beautiful. From the edge of the
bluff overhanging the ocean it ascends
gently to the summit of the first
ridge, then it descends gently to
valley, through which the railroad
runs, and then ascends to the summit
of the second ridge, where it descends
rapidly into ravine running into the
San Marcos river. There are no ar
royos, no abrupt places, and no un-
even ground. Every part of the tract
is visible from every other part. If
you wish to live directly upon the
ocean, the first terrace from the beach
affords lovely building sites. If you
wish ocean breeze and view, without
the sound of the surf, the upper ter
races will give you these. if you
wish a valley, sheltered from the
ocean breezes and yet within three or
four hundred yards of the beach-all
this can be had at Leucadia. The soil
is simply wonderful. On the summit
or the second ridge is ten-acre grove
of Eucalyptus trees, two years old and
twenty feet high, grown without a
drop of water. On the slopes of the
ridge, bordering on the ocean, are or
chards Of Adriatic figs, and fields of
corn twelve feet high, and in the val
ley through which the railroad runs
there are vineyards of Muscat grapes,
three years old, in full bearing; april
cot trees loaded with fruit, and young
orange trees, as lively and as lovely
and as self-reliant us if they were not
growing within 800 yards OF the ocean
surf, within whose sound some agri-
cultural liar has remarked that "or-
| anges will not grow" And all this
without one drop of water except
what has fallen from the clouds. The
workmen are now sinking the first
well ever put down in Leucadia. with
the exception of well which was
sunk in the valley, and which was
given up because the owner, at the
depth OF fifty feet, struck vein of
mineral water. 1t is excellent for
gout, rheumatism and kidney disease,
ami is mild cathartic, but the we'll
digger's garden did not have the gout,
and his kidneys ranked AL, copper
bottomed and copper-fastened, and
his mules did not need a cathartic, so
he gave up the well-and thus there
has never been any irrigation to help
the wonderful vegetation of Leucadia.
(We shall clear out the mineral well
by and by and put house over it and
give the victims of dyspepsia show. }
Well, this paradise is being made
ready for the market. We are some
thing more than commission agents in
the case of Leucadia-we are owners
of large block of the stock of the
Leucadia Company, and it is our hope
and our pride to help make Leucadia
the banner seaside resort of the coast.
Leucadia has been surveyed and
mapped, the avenues, 260 feet apart,
running parallel with the railroad and
ocean beach, and streets at right an
giles 400 feet apart. The avenues are
named after Greek divinities and the
streets after ancient Greek personages
These Greeks are all thoroughly dead
and lot buyers will take no chances of
being obliged to change the names of
the streets whereon they live on ac-
count OF subsequent misconduct of the
people after whom the streets are
named. The str, cts have been cut
out, and a railroad station has been
built, and road is now being graded
down to the beach and bath houses
being erected, and siding and sta
ton is being constructed. And when
we offer lots in Leucadia for sale, we
shall have something more to present
to purchasers than "the substance of
things hoped for and the evidence of
things not seem"
The streets of Leucadia viii be
planted with shade trees and water
will be piped along its avenues, and
there will be "The Sappho," one of
| tho Gnoct ,aa ao;1a batalo in Ca1;for,,;o